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Apple’s first smart display is a gorgeous, speedy smart home hub. It’s when it tries to be the family iPhone that things get awkward.
A second affair has hit the news cycle, but that’s not what matters here.
On The Vergecast: The many spiraling stories in the AI world, the fate of streaming services, Mark Zuckerberg’s meat, and more.
Nvidia’s board and interim CEO Colette Kress told employees they’re ready to ‘move forward together.’
Nvidia is looking for a new CEO, and President Trump says the former Apple CEO would be ‘a great candidate.’
Apple knows how to make a great streaming box to be the center of your home theater, but there are some misses with the new model.
The PROLED MacBook Pro’s logo is lit with boring white LEDs. Missed opportunity.
When you know, you know.
Verge subscribers can get answers to their burning questions about Apple’s first smart display.
After LG was accused of spying through its TVs, I wanted to see how other TV companies were collecting and protecting our data.
For some, the answer to a dodgy gray market is to bring the pharmaceutical supply chain back to American soil.
A children’s treasury of things Alex Karp has said in public over the last three years.
Inside the exclusive world of private torrent trackers — and the everyday people behind the piracy boom.
The AI experience is better, the privacy protections are more proactive, and they’re still stylish.
The Home Assistant Connect Aux-2 helped me track my fridge temperature and finally set up my in-wall speakers.
Real Motors’ debut machine brings Night City vibes to the street, but it’s not the sportbike you might be expecting.
Six years after the Always Home Cam failed to fly, Ring’s smaller, cloud-piloted Drone Cam should ship this January.
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Microsoft 365 is starting to recover as its outage enters a second day.
You can preorder several of the devices today, with shipping expected to start in mid-December.
As a follow-up to last year’s FilmStream Collective Fund, Tubi and Kickstarter are launching the Fandom Fund — a new initiative that will give independent creators access to resources which can be used to help produce projects that will ultimately live on the streaming service beginning in 2027.
On The Vergecast: The many spiraling stories in the AI world, the fate of streaming services, Mark Zuckerberg’s meat, and more.
Meta has ticked off academics on all sides of the social media and mental health debate.
The company has addressed the issues that resulted in the site being offline for a week and shared more details about what happened. In a new community update the BrickLink team explains that as a result of “unusual activity” on the platform, some usernames, IP addresses, and email addresses were accessed, and those affected are being contacted directly. But based on their investigation, no passwords or payment info was accessed.
The German automaker is recalling over 720,000 vehicles in the US because a water pump electrical connector may short circuit and catch fire. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is recommending the vehicles, spanning a wide range of 2012–2018 BMW sedans, coupes, convertibles, wagons, roadsters, and SUVs, be parked outside and away from buildings until they are repaired.
To date, there have been 10 incidents of BMW’s short circuiting, but no injuries or damage yet reported.
It looks like the horror resurgence isn’t going away anytime soon: Deadline reports that a new Friday the 13th film is in the works, suggesting the streaming prequel series Crystal Lake was something of a success. It’s slated to premiere in 2027 with franchise veteran Steve Miner as director.
What a week today has been!
We’re now into the second day of a global Microsoft Outlook outage that’s preventing people from accessing their emails, either through the web or apps. Hopefully it won’t reach a third day, however, as Microsoft reports that recovery efforts are going well.
That’s one of more than 1,600 comments Nvidia staffers have left in an internal “suggestion box,” with the aim of urging the company’s board to consider their feelings regarding actions taken against (now former) CEO Jensen Huang. Their plea to “bring back THE boss” isn’t insignificant, given Nvidia has around 42,000 employees.
Bloomberg reports that the ongoing scandal surrounding allegations of Huang’s infidelity left the former Nvidia CEO’s “legendary energy depleted,” with those around him noticing that he seemed to have “given up” in his final days as CEO.
Huang’s usual take-charge demeanor had evaporated, according to a person familiar with the situation, and he’d started using phrases like “whatever” and “I don’t care.”
After gaining the ability to handle forwarded emails, the AI agent can now take care of those calls you don’t want to make, such as making dinner reservations or dealing with insurance and cable companies. This feature is currently limited to paying US subscribers in the US, however.
Nvidia is looking for a new CEO, and President Trump says the former Apple CEO would be ‘a great candidate.’
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma revealed a new entry in the Wolfenstein series with a brief tease.
Whoop’s new Humans platform is like Instagram Stories with updates from your friends’ fitness tracker data.
A new look for the Humble Bundle storefront is missing an important security feature that was previously there.
Microsoft 365 issues have been cutting people off from their email since early Thursday afternoon, and they still aren’t fixed.
Xbox Insiders get to test the new features today.
Google’s Robby Stein says Gemini 4 Hydrogen is ‘the biggest model upgrade to Search yet.’